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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

choose.ucalgary.ca

Tours and Events | Future Students | University of Calgary

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

442 ms

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About Website

Visit choose.ucalgary.ca now to see the best up-to-date Choose U Calgary content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about choose.ucalgary.ca

We have made it as easy as possible to connect directly with us. You can join us online or in-person throughout the year for many of our prospective student events and guided campus tours.

Visit choose.ucalgary.ca

Key Findings

We analyzed Choose.ucalgary.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 436 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

choose.ucalgary.ca performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tours-and-events

436 ms

js

69 ms

google_tag.script.js

271 ms

google_tag.script.js

277 ms

css__TRfAhqmDltGChAwMYWj_AvPV1nDiHyj2Wsr5sPI6g0.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Choose.ucalgary.ca, 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Ucalgary.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 554.2 kB (28%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Choose.ucalgary.ca main page is 2.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 61.9 kB
  • After minification 41.4 kB
  • After compression 9.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 20.5 kB, which is 33% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 52.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 113.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Choose U Calgary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 158 B

  • Original 700 B
  • After minification 700 B
  • After compression 542 B

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 158 B or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 387.8 kB

  • Original 439.9 kB
  • After minification 438.7 kB
  • After compression 52.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Choose.ucalgary.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 387.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (77%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choose U Calgary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tours-and-events

tours-and-events

436 ms

js

js

69 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

271 ms

google_tag.script.js

google_tag.script.js

277 ms

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283 ms

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276 ms

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293 ms

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369 ms

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482 ms

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545 ms

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25 ms

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509 ms

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1991 ms

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550 ms

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550 ms

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549 ms

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549 ms

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549 ms

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549 ms

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549 ms

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546 ms

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276 ms

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811 ms

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820 ms

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86 ms

Accessibility Review

choose.ucalgary.ca accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

choose.ucalgary.ca best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

choose.ucalgary.ca SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Choose.ucalgary.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Choose.ucalgary.ca main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

choose.ucalgary.ca

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Choose U Calgary. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: